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Provision and Deploy a Drupal Web Farm From the Command Line markjbrown Public cloud platforms make it very easy to provision servers to run Drupal. Tools like Drush make it very easy to manage and deploy Drupal. This session will show you how to write shell scripts to... Intermediate DevOps
Drupal for Publishers: How to build a better newsroom CMS kbasarab Drupal is all about content management, which makes it perfect for all sorts of media outlets. But those outlets, whether newspaper, television, or magazine, have specific needs that need to be... Intermediate Site Building
Backbone.js and Drupal - Blurring the Lines Between Client and Server iduggan Drupal and Backbone.js is a powerful combination, creating a seamless web experience for end users. Backbone.js makes it easy to create powerful applications that blur the lines between the Client... Intermediate Frontend
Extending Drupal with a CRM ChrisChinchilla A CRM (Contact Relationship Manager or Constituent Relationship Manager depending on your sector) is a fantastic way to take your Drupal installation further and streamline your business practises... Intermediate Business + Strategy
High-Performance Drupal: Server Architecture rgristroph A basic overview of the standard "best practices" server architecture for Drupal (the "Mercury stack") will be covered, as well as extending it to clusters of servers. We will discuss evolutions... Intermediate DevOps
You Can Do That In A Browser? Advanced Drupal Development Without Root Access MKorostoff Rebuild nearly 100 complex high traffic websites without doc root access – no access to template files, no additional contributed modules and no writing any custom module code. Wait, what?... Intermediate Frontend
Hack your team, your department, and your organization for the greater good jmertic Many of us complain about how "pointy hair bosses", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
CiviCRM Integration with Drupal Stoob, colemanw CiviCRM is an open-source constituent resource management tool for non-profits, civic and educational organizations that integrates as a Drupal module! CiviCRM handles not only contact management... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades: A Case Study of upgrading County HealthRankings.org jennjohnson, setvik Are you considering a major Drupal upgrade? Forum One will present lessons learned from our recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Building a Better Base with Bootstrap EvanLovely Don't reinvent the wheel, stand on the shoulders of giants! One of the best things to come into the Front End Developers arsenal in a while is the beautiful and powerful UI framework Bootstrap, baked... Intermediate Frontend
Drupal Bit by Bit: Quest of the Request webkenny Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a procedural system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually... Intermediate Coding + Development
Reloading Rules UX with fluxkraft! fago The Rules module gives superpowers to site-builders by enabling them to define conditionally executed actions based on any occurring event. However, with its current user interface common tasks are... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Schema.org-based Drupal Development Sheldon Rampton, scor Schema.org was created to provide “a collection of schemas ... that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers.” It is part of a broader effort to develop... Intermediate Coding + Development
The why and the how of moving to 5.4 wimg With PHP 5.4 out and many production environments still running 5.2 (or older), it's time to paint a clear picture on why everyone should move to 5.3 and 5.4 and how to get code ready for the latest... Intermediate Coding + Development
Take Control of File I/O with Stream Wrappers whastings PHP provides an useful abstraction for managing file I/O called stream wrappers and defines an interface for developers to utilize. Drupal extends PHP’s native interface, creates multiple wrappers in... Intermediate Coding + Development
Drupal + PAAS = Drupal App rlnorthcutt While "cloud" may be a nifty new buzzword, the reality is not quite so simple. There are many ways and methods for service Drupal sites "in the cloud". In this session, we will look at several PAAS... Intermediate DevOps
Ten years of FOSS hosting at the OSU Open Source Lab ramereth For the past ten years the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) has provided hosting for 150 open source projects from around the world. Some of the projects we provide hosting include... Intermediate DevOps
When to Upgrade: Big Drupal 7 Upgrade’s Top 5 takeaways from both a Client and Developer Perspective caseyc, ricochetconsulting, bigdave In this talk, we take a look at the reasons we decided to upgrade to D7. We share our the top 5 takeaways gained during our Big upgrade from both our client’s perspective and our own. Our long time... Intermediate Site Building
The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Power Themeing: Powerful responsive css without template frameworks jmoughon Are template frameworks the best option? Do you do a lot of custom themeing? Is there something that can significantly help? In the current age of Responsive Web Design (RWD) and multiple browsers... Intermediate Frontend

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